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Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
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Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
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New GG releases in 2025 – reds
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
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Feedback, please! From today until the end of July, selected British restaurants and independent wine merchants will be celebrating German...
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Before we publish all the tasting notes on the exceptional 2011s about which Michael Schmidt has enthused here, we offer...
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See this ensuing thread in the Members' forum. Today Michael Schmidt reviews a third tranche of Grosse Gewächse, most of...
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D'Arenberg of McLaren Vale celebrated their centenary last week, jollifications undimmed, I'm told, by the fact that party animal Chester...
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Last Wednesday, members of the VDP (the German association of premium wine producers) congregated at a special meeting in Neustadt/Pfalz...
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While our forum is abuzz with impatience for our tasting notes on Burgundy 2010s and enthusiasm for German wine, it...
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See here for an opportunity to taste Franz Keller's wines – and many more fine German wines – at the...
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Known in the home country as Spätburgunder, German Pinot Noir has come a long way since the days of the...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. What a lot of fun I...
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After our Monday report German Pinots do themselves a favour comes more good news from Germany. With the hottest and...
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When a forum thread entitled What German wine have you drunk this week? gets well over 200 replies, you can...
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Rüdesheim estate owner Johannes Leitz has sold 36% of his trading companies (J J Leitz GmbH and Leitz KG) to...
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This is first part of Michael's review of the current VDP Grosse Gewächse releases and covers the 2010 whites apart...
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For more opinions on this, see comments from the forum. Relatively recent Master of Wine Benjamin Lewin has proved an...
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This article is the second in an irregular season of features written by previous winners of the Young Wine Writer...
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The following is the text of the André Simon Memorial Lecture delivered to the International Wine and Food Society in...
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